CC author spamming

I just received a ‘newsletter’ from a CodeCanyon author about his latest and greatest plugin.

Obviously, I’m writing this because I did not sign up for such a thing. When I replied asking when did I give my permission for him to do so, I received a delivery failure notification (550 No Such User Here). More, the email was sent to one of my addresses that I do not use with the marketplace account.

So, what would you recommend to do to such scumbags, besides hitting the spam button? And what’s Envato’s position & action when it comes to such things? Is any action taken by Envato? (asking because I want to know if it’s worth reporting to support).

I would be careful about jumping the gun on this. I don’t really know much about spamming but I know someone was using one of my email addresses once to spam people. I didn’t even realize it until I had logged into my hosting account and saw all the “please remove me from your list” emails. But I called my hosting company and my email wasn’t hacked. Because the emails never actually came from my server. Instead the spammers were somehow modifying the mail headers to make them seem like they came from me. Nevertheless, I deleted the mail accounts because I wasn’t using them anyway. But a story to think about before we grab the pitchforks

Why would someone do this here? Well 99.9% of members are mature professionals. But there’s always the .01%

Using PHP , you can send Emails without the email actually existing. In other words you can use any email you like. Even one that isn’t yours. That means you can also never trust an email receiver as proof.

When it comes down to it though. You could possible track down the Hosting Service where the email came from.